JPH077876Y2 - Hand-lifting automatic tempura-raising device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an automatic tempura-raising device for hand-lifting, more specifically, a shrimp that is automatically fried while being put in a required molding cup and passing through an oil tank pan. In Tempura, Squid Tempura, Kakiage, etc., do not leave the mark of the molding cup on these tempuras, and the "koromo" is so-called "flower bloomed" around the tempura, yet standard The present invention relates to a hand-lifting automatic tempura frying device that can be fried in a substantially uniform shape and can be fried quickly, easily, continuously and in large quantities at low cost with a natural shape that is almost the same as that fried by hand even by an amateur.

"Conventional Technology" Generally, tempura is fried in a oil heated to about 180 ° C in an oil tank pan with a material with "Koromo" (a mixture of wheat flour and water). The same applies to the various proposed automatic tempura-rairaage.

"Problems in the prior art" At a tempura manufacturing plant intended for mass production, in order to enable ordinary workers to easily fried tempura in an oil tank pot, a predetermined size of molding is performed. The shape of the cup (rings, plates, etc.) was made constant by putting the tempura material with "rolls" around it.

Therefore, the traces of the molding cup clearly remain around the tempura, the beauty of the shape of the tempura that the original tempura craftsman fried cannot be obtained, the heat exchange between the material and oil in the molding cup is delayed, and the flavorful tempura is The current situation is that they cannot get it.

"Means for Solving Problems" The present invention solves the above problems and has the following configuration in order to achieve the object.

That is, an oil tank pan whose bottom plate is heated by a required heater; a slat conveyor provided so as to pass through the oil tank pan and driven by a chain or the like; formed on each slat of the slat conveyor An opening, a support plate provided in the opening, and a shape corresponding to a gap having a required shape formed in the support plate, and within the gap with respect to the level of the support plate, with a certain height up and down. A sludge forming cup that is slidably provided; and a slat that passes through the inside of the oil tank pot, and a cam mechanism that is provided on the inlet side of the oil tank pot
A hand-lifting automatic tempura-raising device characterized in that the respective tempura-molding cups of a conveyor can be moved up and down in heated oil by the cam mechanism.

Therefore, the mold release of the required tempura material from each of the tempura molding cups is expedited so that the “koromo” of the tempura material and the center of the tempura material are heated evenly, and the traces of the tempura molding cup are made on the tempura. It is something that should not be attached at all.

"Embodiment" Next, an embodiment of the hand-lifting automatic tempura raising apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1 showing the whole of the present invention, a rotary shaft 12 is provided at an inlet side and an outlet side of a side plate (not shown) of a boat-shaped oil tank pan 10 in which a bottom plate 10a is heated by a required heater (not shown). , 12a, respectively, each rotation shaft is provided with sprocket 14, 14a at each tip of one shaft that penetrates outward from the side plate (not shown), and a chain 16 is suspended on these sprockets 14, 14a. A rotational force of a required speed is applied to the sprocket 14a on the outlet side by a motor, reduction, a gear, etc. (neither is shown) to make the chain 16 rotatable in the arrow direction.

The chain 16 is provided with a slat conveyor 18, particularly as shown in FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 4, each slat of the slat conveyor 18
A large opening 20a is formed in the longitudinal direction of 20, and the corresponding openings 20b, 20b at the longitudinally opposite end portions thereof are provided at corresponding positions of through holes 24b, 24b formed at respective corners of a support plate 24, which will be described later. Holes 20c, 20c
And a notch 24a for inserting a tempura molding cup having a required shape (a circular shape in the embodiment) is formed at the center of the support plate 24.

The tempura molding cup 22 is configured as follows. That is, the support plate 24
Through holes 24b, 2 near both sides perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the slat 20
Two guide rod penetrating holes 24c, 24c are also formed in the middle portion of 4b, and screw holes 32a are formed in the guide rod penetrating through holes 24c, 24c around the upper and lower parts shown in FIGS. , 32b are formed through the upper threaded groove portion 32a of the guide rod 32 from the bottom to the top to partially support the support plate 2
4, the nut 34 is screwed into the protruding screw groove 32a to integrally fix the guide rod 32 to the support plate, and the four guide rods 32 are parallel to each other below the support plate 24. Project to.

One piece 26a of the bifurcated support piece 26 shown in FIG. 8 is fixed to the lower surface of the support plate 24 at two locations on the diameter line, and the other piece 26b of the support piece is used to separate the gap 22a of the required shape of the support plate. An inner plate 28 having a slightly smaller diameter and a shape similar to that of the cut 24a (circular in the embodiment)
Is fixed at the same level as the support plate 24, and a gap 30 is formed between the support plate 24 and the inner plate 28.

These two sets of guide bars 3 perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the slats 3
The middle portions of the respective guide rods 36, 36 having a length slightly longer than 2, 32 are connected by a connecting rod 38 to form an H shape, and the connecting rod 38 corresponds to the gap 30. When guided to the lowermost position, the upper end of the peripheral wall 22b is fixed to the lower end of the peripheral wall 22b of the tempura forming cup 22 having the same height as the inner plate 28 and the support plate 24.

Further, the lower ends of the guide rods are loosely fitted into the through holes 36a, 36a formed in the corresponding portions of the guide rods 32, 32 near both ends of the guide rods 36, 36, respectively, and the peripheral threaded groove portions 32b of the lower ends thereof are provided. A nut 34a also serving as a stopper is screwed and fixed to 32b.

Therefore, from the support plate 24, the surrounding wall 22a of the tempura forming cup 22
Is guided to the upper part as shown in FIG. 6 and is slidably movable up and down in the gap 30.

As shown in FIG. 12, a cam mechanism is provided on the inlet side inside the boat-shaped oil tank pot 10.
Provide 40.

The cam mechanism 40 is provided with two thin supporting plates 42, 42 at a right angle to the longitudinal direction of the oil pan 10 with a constant space between them.
In the through holes 42a, 42a formed near both ends of 2, 42, thin guide plates 44, 44 having an inverted barbed shape are placed parallel to the longitudinal direction.
Cam shafts 46, 46 having coil springs 48 wound around the lower ends thereof are loosely fitted in the through holes 44a, 44a formed at corresponding positions of the through holes 42a, 42a near both ends of the 44, 44. The members are connected to form a quadrangle, and the thin guide plates 44, 44 having the inverted rod shape are used to form the coil
The spring 48 always lifts upward.

[Operation] In the hand-lifting automatic tempura-raising device having the above-mentioned configuration,
The tempura material 50 to which the "rollers" are attached is put into the molding cup 22, and the rotating shafts 12 and 12a are rotated at a required speed by a motor, reduction, a gear, etc., and the chain 16 is rotated in the arrow direction.

As a result, the tempura molding cup 22 provided on each slat 20 of the slat conveyor 18 integrated with the chain 16 is moved up and down while passing the bottom plate 10a in the oil of the boat-shaped oil tank pan 10 heated at a constant speed. .

Specifically, the guide rods 36, 36 loosely fitted to the guide rods 32, 32 projecting vertically and parallel to the lower surface of the support plate 24 are lifted by the reverse rod-shaped thin guide plates 44, 44 of the cam mechanism 40, The guide plate 4
When passing through 4 and 44, the entire molding cup 22 falls, so the nuts 34 also serving as stoppers at the lower ends of the guide rods 32 and 32.
Since it goes up and down between a and 34a and the lower surface of the support plate 24, the peripheral wall 22b of the tempura molding cup 22 integrated with the connecting rod 38 slides in the gap 30 between the support plate 24 and the inner plate 28. It moves up and down freely.

"Effect" According to the hand-lifting automatic tempura frying device of the present invention, the following unique effects can be obtained.

(1) As described above, when passing through the heated oil of the boat-shaped oil tank pan 10, the cam mechanism 40 causes the peripheral wall 22b of the tempura molding cup 22 to slide the gap 30 between the support plate 24 and the inner plate 28. Since it moves freely up and down, the tempura material 50 is heated on average, heat exchange is accelerated, and the traces of the peripheral wall 22b of the molding cup 22 and the inner plate 28 are not attached to the tempura 50 at all.

(2) Since the peripheral wall 22b of the tempura molding cup 22 integrated with the connecting rod 38 is moved up and down by the guide rods 32, 32, the "rolls" adhere to the so-called "flowering" state around the tempura, Moreover, it is fried in a substantially standardized shape, and even a non-skilled person can quickly, easily and continuously fried a large amount in a natural shape that is almost the same as fried by hand.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view and a sectional view of a hand-lifting automatic tempura-raising device according to the present invention, in which a part thereof is omitted, and FIG.
Partial enlarged plan view of the conveyor, FIG. 3 is a partial cutaway perspective view showing the slat with the tempura molding cup removed from each slat constituting the slat conveyor, and FIG. 4 is provided on each slat, Fig. 5 is a front view of the tempura molding cup showing a state in which the peripheral wall is guided downward, Fig. 5 is a perspective view of Fig. 4, and Fig. 6 is a tempura in a state in which the peripheral wall is guided upward from the state of Fig. 5. FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the molding cup, FIG. 7 is a plan view of FIGS. 5 and 6, FIG. 8 is a rear view of FIG. 7, and FIG. 9 is a vertical sectional view taken along line IX-IX of FIG. FIG. 10 is a partially enlarged perspective view of FIG. 8 showing a state where an inner plate is provided in the notch for inserting the tempura molding cup of the support plate to form a gap, and FIG. 11 is
FIG. 12 is a rear view showing a state where only the tempura molding cup is removed from the support plate, and FIG. 12 is a schematic perspective view showing the cam mechanism. 10 …… Ship-shaped oil tank pan; 10a …… bottom plate; 12,12a …… spindle; 14,14a …… sprocket; 12,12a …… spindle; 14,14a …… sprocket; 16 …… chain; 18 …… Slat conveyor; 20 ... Slat; 20a ... Opening; 20b ... Edges on both sides; 20c ... Through hole; 22 ... Tempura molding cup; 22a ... Top edge of cup; 22b ... Perimeter wall; 24 ...... Support plate; 24a ...... Tempura molding cup insertion notch; 24b ...... Through hole; 24c ...... Guide bar through hole; 26 ...... Support piece; 28 ...... Internal plate; 30 ...... Gap; 32 ...... Guide rod; 32a, 32b ...... Screw groove; 34 ...... Nut; 34a ...... Nut also serving as stopper; 36 …… Guide rod; 36a …… Through hole; 38 …… Connection rod; 40 …… Cam mechanism; 42 …… Support plate; 44 …… Thin guide plate with reverse shape; 46 …… Cam shaft; 48 …… Coil spring; 50 …… Tempura material.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. An oil tank pan whose bottom plate is heated by a required heater; a slat conveyor provided so as to pass through the oil tank pan and driven by a chain or the like; formed on each slat of the slat conveyor Has a shape corresponding to the opening, the support plate provided in the opening, and the gap having the required shape formed in the support plate, and within a certain height with respect to the level of the support plate. A tempura molding cup slidably provided up and down; and a cam mechanism provided on the inlet side of the oil tank pan; and each tempura molding cup of the slat conveyor passing through the oil tank pan. A hand-lifting automatic tempura-raising device characterized by a cam mechanism that allows it to move up and down in heated oil.